The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Directed by
- Terrence Malick
- Cast
- Wu Ruo Fu, Chang Rong, Li Xiao Lu, Liu Xiao Feng, An Ze Hao, Yao Qian, Chi Hua Qiong, Bao Lei
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 3,340 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
American soldiers fight in the brutal Battle of Mount Austen during World War Two. The film follows their internal struggles and the natural beauty that surrounds the conflict.
contemplativepoeticsolemnmeditativevisceralhauntingimmersiveintrospective
What happens
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it portrays U.S. soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Ben Chaplin. The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he says British foot soldiers are called a "thin red line of [h]eroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. The film marked Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence. It co-stars Adrien Brody, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C. Reilly, and John Travolta. Reportedly, the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours. By the final cut, footage of performances by Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, and Mickey Rourke had been removed (one of Rourke's scenes was included in the special features outtakes of the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD release). The film was scored by Hans Zimmer and shot by John Toll. Principal photography took place in Queensland, Australia and in the Solomon Islands. 20th Century Fox premiered The Thin Red Line in Beverly Hills on December 22, 1998, and released it in a limited release on December 23, 1998, before a nationwide release on January 15, 1999, and grossed $98 million against a $52 million budget. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising its philosophical depiction of war, Malick's direction and screenplay, musical score, cinematography, editing, and performances of the cast. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound. It won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Martin Scorsese ranked it as his second-favorite film of the 1990s. On At the Movies, Gene Siskel called it "the finest contemporary war film I've seen." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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